I'd appreciate any heads up on safely cashing out if you have pointers.p.p.s. ours are mined, total investment roughly $0p.p.p.s.

But better safe than sorry, becuase people will pass on your place and you will never know the reason.....Like @Michael Baum said, there are many option like the mini stackables nowadays....

So bottom line they got away with it and are living in a beautiful safe clean country. 

A person should never focus on minimal $ down, they should focus on the deal, a "deal" worth buying, operating, the strategy, because the $ is always out there looking for a place to land that's safe. 

I'm leaning towards separate bank accounts to be safe.

We have an investment property in downtown SF - the relatively nice and safe SOMA area.

I ran all of the numbers and it seems to be pretty safe from a cashflow perspective.

Then I came to the conclusion it was “risky vs safe”.  

I don't love taking HELOCS to burn, but if you have 500k in equity, you can safely use up to 250k to buy another property and probably get one that cash flows well by not living there.

We are currently looking at a HUD home in Georgia - I have a couple of questions and can’t seem to find a definitive answer - The home is currently in the OO listing period - our plan would be to buy the home doing extensive renovations (the home is in a “Historical” area so renovations have to be approved) once completed we plan on living there full time - it could take ip to a year to complete or longer I don’t know  - as I see it the OO designation is to be the OO for a min of 12 months - is this after the home has been renovated or after you close on the home - though the house could probably technically be lived in now it does have some water and roof damage and needs complete redo of electrical and plumbing - for me to deem it safe - so not really livable by normal standards - but no way it would be livable in just a couple of months - any thoughts or an actual answer to the OO rules